Maher: Is Romney’s high school bullying a clue to his character?

Friday night on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher and his panel, including anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, actress Eva Longoria, CNN contributor Margaret Hoover and author David Cay Johnston, posed the question as to whether or not the high school antics of former Massachusetts Governor and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney have a bearing on the man today.

Maher said that he was initially inclined to give Romney the benefit of the doubt on the issue, saying that everybody does stupid things in high school. But, he said, it matters how you’re stupid, what kind of trouble you get into, and the actions of Mitt Romney the schoolyard tough speak volumes about how Mitt Romney the politician and statesman views people who aren’t like himself and who he perceives as weak.

Hoover interjects that there are stories of Romney shutting down the offices of Bane Capital for two weeks to search for a partner’s missing daughter. Maher countered that this was a person who was just like Romney, another wealthy white man whose kid missed curfew.

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